Template:Monthly clean-up category

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Usage

The simplest usage is just {{Monthly clean-up category}} In this case a default message page for that group of categories will need to exist. See Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages for a list of existing message pages and to understand the naming convention.

Also the category will need to follow the naming convention "Blah blah from January 2026". (See #Limitations for more information.)

If a red-linked counter category is shown, simply populate it with {{Counter category}}.

Parameter toc

• toc = focus - gives a focus letter
• toc = toc - give a category style table of contents
• toc = none -

Parameter hidden

• hidden = n - The category will not be hidden.

Examples

Focus

{{Monthly clean-up category
 | type    = silly articles
 | message = silly articles should be deleted
 | toc     = focus
 | cat     = test stubs
}}

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

This category combines all silly articles from January 2026 (2026-01) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be deleted So that articles don't remain in this category too long, a suggestion is made to work on articles beginning with a certain letter. The letter is changed daily.

The current focus is on articles beginning with: Y.

Toc

{{Monthly clean-up category
 | type    = silly articles
 | message = silly articles should be made sensible
 | toc     = toc
 | cat     = test stubs
}}

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

This category combines all silly articles from January 2026 (2026-01) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be made sensible

No TOC

{{Monthly clean-up category
 | type    = silly articles
 | message = silly articles should be rewritten
 | toc     = none
 | cat     = test stubs
}}

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

This category combines all silly articles from January 2026 (2026-01) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be rewritten

Another example

{{Monthly clean-up category
 | type    = silly articles
 | message = silly articles should be revised
 | cat     = test stubs
 | hidden  = n
}}

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

This category combines all silly articles from January 2026 (2026-01) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be revised

Nearly empty copy

{{Monthly clean-up category
 | type    = 
 | toc     = toc
 | cat     = 
 | hidden  = y
 | message = 
}}

Limitations

If the category name does not follow the convention "Blah blah from January 2026", the template will need to have "year" "month name" and "monthno" supplied.

Example

...

| monthno = 01
| month name = January
| year    = 2026

...

See also

• {{Monthly maintenance category}}
• {{Parent monthly clean-up category}}

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